Ukraine Aims to Pass Fresh Budget Cuts, Reforms in Bid for New Aid

BRUSSELS—Ukraine’s government will pass fresh budget cuts and economic overhauls in the coming weeks in a bid to secure a broad new package of international assistance, the country’s new finance minister said.

In a Tuesday interview, the Chicago-born Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said Kiev hoped to receive another installment of loans from the International Monetary Fund early next month. But she pushed back against Western criticism that Kiev was failing to revamp parts of its economy fast enough, saying that such complaints...